Conclusions and Recommendations the Indian in the same area, of the contrasting
elements of European and Indian culture and of early and later American culture . Emphasis would be placed throughout on actual participation in the social activities of school and neighborhood,, and every part or phase of the program would begin and end in the contemporary and surrounding community which the child knows directly . Thus the pupil would develop an active interest in the fortunes of society and acquire a stock of ideas which would enable him to go beyond the immediate in time and space . He would then be led by natural connections-genetic and functional-to the study of the making of the region and the nation. Through such an organization of materials the elementary school would acquaint the child as fully as possible with the evolution of American culture-local and national-and to some extent with the origins of American culture in the Western world . b. In the secondary school the central theme would be the development of mankind and the evolution of human culture, with the emphases suggested elsewhere in this chapter and with 6o